On April 12, 2023, China's Ministry of Natural Resources released the 2022 China Mineral Resources report.

Overview of natural resources

By the end of 2022, there were 127.6 million hectares of cultivated land, 20.13 million hectares of farming land, 283.53 million hectares of forest land, 264.27 million hectares of grassland, 23.57 million hectares of wetland, 35.97 million hectares of urban villages and industrial and mining land, 10.18 million hectares of land for transportation, and 36.29 million hectares of land used for water and water conservancy facilities.